Pearse Doherty (Donegal, Sinn Fein) | Oireachtas source

Homeowners are telling the Tánaiste that the scheme is not working. That is the nuts and bolts of this. Everybody can tell you this. Some 1,300 people turned up in Inishowen and 500 turned up in Mayo to tell us the scheme is not working. The scheme is not working. It locks people out. I have the Attorney General's advice with me. His advice was very clearly aimed at keeping people out of the scheme and trying to limit the exposure. How is it legal advice for the Attorney General to call into question the competence of certified engineers? How is it legal advice for him to call into question the competence of the staff working in our local authorities in Donegal and elsewhere? Riddle me that. The Attorney General was not giving legal advice in a lot of this. It was actually policy advice. Where he did give legal advice, in chapter 23 he says "it is important to urgently engage competent local solicitors". With regard to quarries and block manufacturers, he states:

There is considerable urgency with this because if any claims are not statute barred it would be necessary to issue proceedings urgently to avoid them becoming statute barred.

He goes on to discuss Cassidy's quarry and to question whether it was attempting to avoid liability by going into liquidation. He makes it clear that even if Cassidy's quarry goes into liquidation, it can still be pursued.

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